At Streema we want to people to easily access great audio content and that's why we are taking Simple Radio to every device on every platform. We are happy to share that Simple Radio is now available on Amazon Echo, so go ahead and check it out.

How do you enable Simple Radio on your Echo? The first step is to say: "Alexa, enable Simple Radio skill" or in the store.

Once you enable Simple Radio, can ask Alexa to play any station by just saying:
-"Alexa, ask Simple Radio to play KEXP"
-"Alexa, tell Simple Radio to play BBC Music"
-"Alexa, tell Simple Radio to tune in NPR"

Also, it's easy to play the last station you listened to by just saying "Alexa, talk to Simple Radio" and Alexa will ask you if you want to resume.

At Streema we strive to go where people want to go and we firmly believe voice-activated platforms are the future of audio listening - they provide a simple way to seamlessly integrate into someone’s life, without friction, and we want your favorite radio station to make it there.

As we mentioned previously, we think voice activated platforms will be a big part of the future of radio

Our aspiration is that Simple Radio will be there reacting to your voice commands and our first foray into this space will be Amazon Echo. To that end, we decided to initially make our app available on the Amazon Store. We’re happy to say that Simple Radio is already getting great reviews - as usual, reviews that emphasize that our app is simple and that it is highly valued by users.

At Streema we want to take the simple listening experience that radio offers to every device on every platform, whether voice activated, in the car, or wherever else radio will consumed. Making Simple Radio available on the Amazon Store is another step in that direction.

As we mentioned in the last post of 2016, this year will give us more insight into the changes coming in how people access great audio content.

According to the recently published Infinite Dial report by Edison Research, 7% of Americans 12+ own smart speakers and that number will only go up over time. We’ve even seen it with our own users, some of which buy a Google Home device or an Amazon Echo and want to activate Simple Radio with the sound of their voice.

At Streema we strive to go where people want to go and we firmly believe voice-activated platforms are the future of audio listening - they provide a simple way to seamlessly integrate into someone’s life, without friction, and we want your favorite radio station to make it there.

At Streema we’ve always had users from all over the world using our applications. A few years ago we added multiple languages to our website, and we felt that it was time to do the same for Simple Radio. As a mobile app with a lot of international usage, we felt Simple Radio needed to be more international, so we worked with people from several different countries to add great content and now we’ve added many more languages.

We initially had English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and now we’ve launched the following new languages on our Simple Radio app:

Italian

Hindi

Japanese

Malay

Korean

Chinese

Indonesian

Russian

German

We’re considering adding more languages so, as a Simple Radio user, which ones do you think we should add next?

At Streema we’ve always been proud of the products we build, having a culture centered around listening to our users and building for them. This is why the average rating, while an imperfect indicator of quality, is a key metric for us.

Last year we achieved a 4.6 average rating on the App Store but on Google Play for a long time we seemed to be stuck on a 4.4 rating, so we set out to change that. Over the past 12 months we’ve been working hard to improve our product: we added more content, enhanced our user experience, and, most importantly, we continued to listen to your feedback.*

On a related note, we routinely look at a report that the Google Play platform offers to developers, that highlights the most common words that users mention through reviews. We recently looked at it and these were the Top 5:

Easy to use. Best radio app. Local stations. Great selection. Clear sound.

This is all music to our ears - pun intended!

A big thanks to all of our users for sharing how you feel about Simple Radio. 🙂

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

* We always read and respond to every comment, whether it’s via Google Play, Twitter, email, web… or even on the street! So please continue letting us know what you think. 🙂

This past year, 2016, has been very exciting year for us as we were featured again on Google Play, we launched an Android Auto integration, and we hit 10M MAUs on our platform, among many other things we never got a chance to write about on our blog.

The coming year, 2017, has a lot in store for us, with emerging changes in how people listen to radio (I’m talking to you Alexa!) as well as the continued growth on car platforms.

There’s a lot of great content to be discovered on radio and we are proud to say that today we have millions of people that access this very relevant content through our different products, from news to sports to comedy to amazing music, and we’ll continue to go where people listen to radio, wherever that may be.

And of course, we didn’t want to finish without wishing you a Wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year. 🙂

Today we’re happy to share with you that Streema recently reached 10 Million Monthly Active Users! We never thought that ten million people would use our service in a single month, but here we are. 😄

It’s difficult to think how big a number 10 million is when referring to people, but given the time we live in and thanks to many products and services we rely on, it’s also great to share that it’s possible to make it happen with a small team like ours.

Streema’s user base has changed in many ways through the years. For a long time our product has been used by desktop users at Streema.com - however, today, of those 10 million, around 7 million are mobile between mobile web and our Simple Radio App in Android and iOS.

Simple Radio has been the main reason for that growth in the last few years. Our app has received positive reviews with an average of 4.4 stars in the Play Store and 4.5 in the App Store, making it one of the best rated music apps out there. To all our lovely users, THANK YOU!

Here we’ve highlighted some of the best reviews we’ve recently read out of the hundreds we receive every day:

At Streema we wanted to let you know that our mobile app Simple Radio is being featured right now on Google Play for countries such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, UK, France and many more.

This is not the first time the app is featured on Google Play and we're really happy about that. Also, we want to use this opportunity to thank the folks at Google for their feedback and recognition. 😊

We’ve been quietly working away on many things during the first few months of the year and wanted to share with you one of our projects: Simple Radio for Android Auto. The connected car is part of a future that is quickly coming to the present, and at Streema we want to be a part of it.

We’re proud to announce that we were selected as launch partners at Google’s Android Auto event last week in São Paulo, Brazil, where Google announced that Android Auto was coming to the South American country in April. Local media pickeditup and we can say we’re very excited to contribute to create a more connected (car) world.

Here are some screenshots of the Portuguese language version of Simple Radio for Android Auto:

Thank you Google for selecting us as launch partners and thanks to our team for building such an amazing app! 🙂